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Chapters (70)
  1. Dedication
  2. Chapter One
  3. Chapter Two
  4. Chapter Three
  5. Chapter Four
  6. Chapter Five
  7. Chapter Six
  8. Chapter Seven
  9. Chapter Eight
  10. Chapter Nine
  11. Chapter Ten
  12. Chapter Eleven
  13. Chapter Twelve
  14. Chapter Thirteen
  15. Chapter Fourteen
  16. Chapter Fifteen
  17. Chapter Sixteen
  18. Chapter Seventeen
  19. Chapter Eighteen
  20. Chapter Nineteen
  21. Chapter Twenty
  22. Chapter Twenty-One
  23. Chapter Twenty-Two
  24. Chapter Twenty-Three
  25. Chapter Twenty-Four
  26. Chapter Twenty-Five
  27. Chapter Twenty-Six
  28. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  29. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  30. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  31. Chapter Thirty
  32. Chapter Thirty-One
  33. Chapter Thirty-Two
  34. Chapter Thirty-Three
  35. Chapter Thirty-Four
  36. Chapter Thirty-Five
  37. Chapter Thirty-Six
  38. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  39. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  40. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  41. Chapter Forty
  42. Chapter Forty-One
  43. Chapter Forty-Two
  44. Chapter Forty-Three
  45. Chapter Forty-Four
  46. Chapter Forty-Five
  47. Chapter Forty-Six
  48. Chapter Forty-Seven
  49. Chapter Forty-Eight
  50. Chapter Forty-Nine
  51. Chapter Fifty
  52. Chapter Fifty-One
  53. Chapter Fifty-Two
  54. Chapter Fifty-Three
  55. Chapter Fifty-Four
  56. Chapter Fifty-Five
  57. Chapter Fifty-Six
  58. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  59. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  60. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  61. Chapter Sixty
  62. Chapter Sixty-One
  63. Chapter Sixty-Two
  64. Chapter Sixty-Three
  65. Chapter Sixty-Four
  66. An Extract from Breacher
  67. Chapter One
  68. Also by Jack Lively
  69. GET A FREE NOVELLA
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Chapter Fifty-One

The screwdriver went back in my sleeve. I pushed the duct tape back into place. Then, I pulled the guy back into the Hortensia bush, and started scavenging.

He was dressed in regular clothing. Jeans and a pull-over windbreaker. Despite that, the guy was well equipped. Tactical vest with Motorola radio and extra magazines for his weapon, which was a Heckler and Koch MP5SD. The MP5 is an excellent close quarters, tactical submachine gun. High-end German machining. Light and handy, easy to use, accurate and quiet. It’s the go-to gun for units that can afford it, because it isn’t cheap. Typically only the best military units and highest end private contractors get MP5s.

The SD variant takes a regular H&K MP5 and adds an integral suppressor that muffles the sound and muzzle flash. One of the ways it does that is by slowing the bullet down to sub-sonic speeds. Because a supersonic bullet’s going to make quite a bang when it breaks the sound barrier. So the MP5SD stops that from happening.

I checked the weapon. Locked and loaded with one in the chamber and twenty-nine rounds left in the mag. The guy had two extra magazines in the vest. Overkill, but reassuring. I put them into my jeans pockets anyway. I thumbed the selector on the MP5 to the second position, which is a three-round burst, palmed back the bolt and then over to lock it down. While my hands were busy doing that from muscle memory, my eyes were up and scanning.

Straight ahead was nothing but rain. To my left, the floodlights were lighting up still more rain. To my right was the north end of the estate, a large field of grass with a big tree smack in the middle of it. The tree was about fifty yards from my position. I saw movement behind it, the tail end of someone’s run to get cover behind the tree.

The MP5 can be fired accurately to two hundred yards. That’s for a highly trained operator firing a regular MP5 on a nice sunny day, no wind, no rain, no pressure. But a sub-sonic, slow bullet fired out of a suppressed barrel isn’t going to pack as much of a punch at two-hundred yards. But at fifty there isn’t an issue. At fifty you just lead the guy by an extra half inch.